Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today

Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today šŸ“ø Modern museum of women in photography
Open Thurs, Fri & Sat 11-4PM
Unit 19
Nailsworth Mills
Avening Road
Nailsworth
Glos. GL6 0BS

šŸŒæāœØ Part of our Poisoned Futures? programme āœØšŸŒæā ā ā šŸ“ Garden Partyā šŸ“… 8 August | šŸ•’ 17:30ā ā Join us in Mortimer Gardens for a...
24/07/2025

šŸŒæāœØ Part of our Poisoned Futures? programme āœØšŸŒæā 
ā 
ā 
šŸ“ Garden Partyā 
šŸ“… 8 August | šŸ•’ 17:30ā 
ā 
Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees.ā 
ā 
Book via link in bioā 
ā 
ā 
šŸ§µ Visible Mending Workshopā 
šŸ“… 31 July | šŸ•’ 18:00-20:00ā 
ā 
A hands-on session celebrating care and repair through stitching. Beginners welcome!ā 
ā 
Book via link in bio

šŸŒšŸ“ø CALLING YOUNG CREATIVES! šŸ“øšŸŒā ā Are you under 25 and passionate about the planet?ā Got an eye for photography and a story...
04/07/2025

šŸŒšŸ“ø CALLING YOUNG CREATIVES! šŸ“øšŸŒā 
ā 
Are you under 25 and passionate about the planet?ā 
Got an eye for photography and a story to tell?ā 
ā 
Weā€™re looking for powerful, original images that explore what green means to you. ā 
ā 
šŸŸ¢ Photography Competitionā 
šŸ—“ļø Deadline: August 31ā 
šŸ“Open to under-25s worldwideā 
šŸŽ‰ Winning entries will be exhibited in the Art Gardenā 
šŸ“ø Winner receives a Canon Zoemini ā 
ā 
Full details on website
ā 
Image Ā© ā 

šŸ–¤ šŸ–¤ New arrival for the Collection šŸ–¤šŸ–¤ā Grete Eckertā€™s photograph of the death mask of the L'Inconnue de la Seineā€”The Unkn...
20/06/2025

šŸ–¤ šŸ–¤ New arrival for the Collection šŸ–¤šŸ–¤ā 
Grete Eckertā€™s photograph of the death mask of the L'Inconnue de la Seineā€”The Unknown Woman of the Seine.ā 
The much reproduced death mask was the basis of the Resusci Anne CPR doll, created in the 1960s, using her face as a model - sometimes called ā€œthe most kissed face of all time.ā€ā 

šŸŒæ Round-up of this week at Hundred Heroines šŸŒæā Visit our summer ā€œPoisoned Futuresā€ ā šŸ›ļøHundred Heroines Museum, Nailsw...
17/06/2025

šŸŒæ Round-up of this week at Hundred Heroines šŸŒæā 
Visit our summer ā€œPoisoned Futuresā€ ā 
šŸ›ļøHundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth Mills Estate ()ā 
šŸŒ¾ Miles Marling Field, Forest Greenā 
**Opens Thursday** šŸŒø The new Art Garden in Mortimer Gardens (slightly delayed owing to technical problemsā€¦) and display at King George V Playing Fieldsā 
Featuring works by Laura El-Tantawy - ā 
Gulshan Khan - ā 
Lisl Ponger - ā 
ā 
āœØ Scarlett McNally , fine art student and SVA Open Studios participant, will be in residence this weekend! Pinhole photographs, photograms, and sculpture ā€“ all made from discarded objects. ā 
ā 
Big thanks to Canon Young People Programme and for their support in making this happen!ā 
ā 
Imagesā 
ā 
Behind the Scenes Ā© ā 
Installation at Miles Marling Ā© ā 
Field Notes for the Future ā€“ participation board for the time capsuleā 
Pinhole Ā© ā 
How to find us

Introducing the artistsā ā šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Fi...
09/06/2025

Introducing the artistsā 
ā 
šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | Juneā€“September 2025 ā 
ā 
ā 
ā 
Lisl Ponger is a Vienna-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores stereotypes, racism, and the construction of the gaze. Working at the intersection of art, art history, and ethnography, she utilises photography, film, installation, and text to challenge cultural narratives and highlight issues of identity, memory and power dynamics.ā 
ā 
Featured image: Wild Places, 2001 Ā© Lisl Ponger. The works in the exhibition examine how historical and contemporary systems of power continue to shape uneven geographies of suffering and privilege.ā 
ā 
This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | Juneā€“September 2025...
09/06/2025

šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | Juneā€“September 2025 ā 
ā 
ā 
ā 
Laura El-Tantawy is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & educator. Investigating notions of home and belonging, she routinely approaches her work from a social and environmental sensibility drawing on her transatlantic background. Her visual explorations often intertwine moving images, sound, and personal narratives, marked by the artistā€™s lyrical eye on reality. Through her work, she aims to create socially engaged, thought-provoking visual narratives that challenge perceptions and inspire transformative change.ā 
ā 
ā 
Featured image: From the series ā€œPangā€™Ono Pangā€™Onoā€ Ā© Laura El-Tantawy. The series explores the emotional and physical toll on women in Malawi in their quest to access clean water. The project was originally commissioned by WaterAid and Wimbledon Foundation.ā 
ā 
This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | Juneā€“September 2025...
09/06/2025

šŸ“ Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | Juneā€“September 2025 ā 
ā 
Introducing the artists #1ā 
ā 
Gulshan Khan is a contemporary South African photographer whose work focuses on themes related to human rights, social justice, identity, culture and the dignity of people. Her visual reflections of the human condition and the world around her continue to be driven by these themes, offering poignant insights into the complexities of contemporary life.ā 
ā 
ā€œWhile Plastic pollution has become a dangerous global problem, for some, recycling means the difference between a meal or going hungry every day.ā€ā 
ā 
Featured image from ā€œLife in Plasticā€. A reclaimer at Robinson Deep landfill, Johannesburg's largest landfill. Recyclers complain of not having adequate protective clothing and as a result suffering infections and other health issues Ā© Gulshan Khan ā 
ā 
This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

šŸŒæ An exciting and busy week ahead at Hundred Heroines šŸŒæā ā This Friday marks the opening of our summer ā€œPoisoned Futur...
08/06/2025

šŸŒæ An exciting and busy week ahead at Hundred Heroines šŸŒæā 
ā 
This Friday marks the opening of our summer ā€œPoisoned Futuresā€ ā€“ across three sites:ā 
šŸ›ļøHundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth Mills Estate ()ā 
šŸŒ¾ Miles Marling Field, Forest Greenā 
šŸŒø The new Art Garden in Mortimer Gardensā 
ā 
Featuring Laura El-Tantawy - ā 
Gulshan Khan - ā 
Lisl Ponger - ā 
ā 
Opening reception:ā 
šŸ“ Contemporary Gallery, Museumā 
šŸ•  17:30 on 13 Juneā 
šŸ”—Head over to Eventbrite to book your ticket!ā 
ā 
āœØ Plus: weā€™re thrilled to host Scarlett McNally , fine art student and SVA Open Studios participant, for the next two weekends! Expect pinhole photographs, photograms, and sculpture ā€“ all made from discarded objects.ā 
ā 
ā™»ļø Feeling inspired? Join us in the Re-Use Studio ā€“ weā€™ve been dumpster diving so you donā€™t have to. Come get creative with recycled materials.

Opening 17:30 June 13, this powerful exhibition confronts the hidden costs of climate action. Featuring works by acclaim...
06/06/2025

Opening 17:30 June 13, this powerful exhibition confronts the hidden costs of climate action. Featuring works by acclaimed photographers šŸ“ø:ā 
ā 
Laura El-Tantawy - ā 
Gulshan Khan - ā 
Lisl Ponger - ā 
ā 
The exhibition invites us to explore the complex global entanglements of climate change, environmental justice and human survival.ā 
ā 
ā 
Stay tuned for further details ...šŸŒæ

Congratulations, Maryam! .official ā ā Maryam Firuziā€™s stunning book "Before Our Chance to Watch Ends" has just landed in...
25/05/2025

Congratulations, Maryam! .official ā 
ā 
Maryam Firuziā€™s stunning book "Before Our Chance to Watch Ends" has just landed in our library. Her powerful work featured in our last exhibition Based on a True Story.ā 
ā 
A must-have for anyone interested in lens-based storytelling, resistance and life in Iran.ā 
ā €ā 
āœØ Come browse it in person.

šŸŽˆToday would have been the 90th birthday of photographer Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis (1935ā€“2018).ā ā Weā€™re proud to hold her...
24/05/2025

šŸŽˆToday would have been the 90th birthday of photographer Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis (1935ā€“2018).ā 
ā 
Weā€™re proud to hold her archiveā€”an extraordinary record of the creative and countercultural scenes of the late 20th century. Through her lens, the personal becomes political, the backstage becomes centre stage, and legends become unexpectedly human.ā 
ā 
Swipe through for:ā 
šŸŽ¤ Ian Duryā 
šŸ–¼ Hannah Francis with her harpā 
šŸŽø Robert Plantā 
šŸ“øSelf-portraitā 
šŸš—Contact sheetā 
ā 
Elisabeth didnā€™t just make photographsā€”she built relationships, nurtured trust and told stories the mainstream missed. Her archive is a living thing, and weā€™re honoured to care for it.

Exhibition: A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeskaā Location: Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworthā Closes: Sunday 1 Jun...
21/05/2025

Exhibition: A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeskaā 
Location: Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworthā 
Closes: Sunday 1 June 2025ā 
ā 
Featured photographer: Mary Beth Willisā 
ā 
Hi, this is Mary Beth Willis and Iā€™m happy to be here for the takeover. Iā€™m an American photographer and writer who has lived in England for almost twenty years. Iā€™m a self-taught photographer who learned to focus my lens by capturing our daughters and the flowers in my garden and by the wayside here in England. ā 
ā 
Iā€™m fascinated by the role ā€˜playā€™ plays in our lives! When introduced me to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeskaā€™s life and work in her beautiful book ā€˜I Also Fight Windmillsā€™ I was saddened by Sophieā€™s story but also inspired by it too. ā 
ā 
ā€˜For Funā€™s Sakeā€™ is my photo in the ā€˜We Also Fight Windmillsā€™ group exhibition. I have many questions about play, motherhood and the erosion of our opportunities to play in our digital age. The treeā€™s erosion in the encroaching waters is there for all to see. The erosion of motherā€™s and childrenā€™s freedom to play and be themselves without the watchful gaze of the digital age is harder to capture. The photograph of the children climbing a pine tree in the tidal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, taken with a Rolleiflex T film camera, represents erosion in many forms. For a moment the children played in analogueā€¦ā 
ā 
ā€œIt is a happy talent to know how to play.ā€ ~ Ralph Waldo Emersonā 
ā 
I am currently working on a Pocket Guide to Play and researching the life and work of the photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Schuster Taylor at the Bodleian Libraries, with a mind to curate a collection of Langeā€™s work while creating my own ā€˜Panaceaā€™. ā 
ā 
Image1: For Funā€™s Sake ā 
Image2: Consider the Oyster ā 
Image3: Motherā€™s Pine

Address

Gloucester
GL11AG

Opening Hours

Thursday 10:30am - 4pm
Friday 10:30am - 4pm
Saturday 10:30am - 4pm
Sunday 10:30am - 4pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organisation

Send a message to Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today:

Shortcuts

Share

Category